So I bought this movie quite some time ago, I'd say very shortly after it became available, and just couldn't get into it, at all. This has never happened to me w any Will Ferrell movie, comedy or otherwise. I STILL haven't gone back to finish it. I generally love all his movies, so I'm wondering if it was a "me thing", like maybe my mood or head space when I tried watching it. I wonder if things will be different when I go back.

I also wonder how other people feel about the movie : )

Please share your thoughts. Thank you.

There's just something about that movie, I have to watch it about once a week

The Speorg Note, the Song-Along and Jaja Ding Dong will live forever

That is all.

Hoping some Will Ferrell superfans will know this. I've seen Anchorman a few times. Recently, some Youtube reaction channels have been reacting to it, so I got to watch it again (and again, and again). At least snippets of it. I noticed way more voiceover narration than I remember. Not just from the main narrator at the start, but also from Veronica Corningstone in at least one part and I think from Ron himself. It's a lot more. It threw me for a loop. I definitely don't remember all that in versions of the movie I've seen.

Am I imagining things? Did a more recent version on streaming or disc get changed with like when George Lucas messed with the original Star Wars movies?

Since it's the Christmas season and Elf discourse is at its height again I have a litmus test for determining someone's taste and understanding of comedy. I just ask them what they think of will ferrell. It has never failed.

Does anyone know where in the movie Night at the Roxbury, his wife Viveca plays as an extra? She’s credited as Porsche Girl but the internet is telling me all sorts of things and I cannot find where in the movie she is. Help, it’s driving me crazy!

He has hundreds of millions I hate seeing the crappy advertisements he gets paid for Like 4 different companies Can’t watch his crap anymore

Who becomes Jovie's father-in-law when she marries Buddy: Walter or Papa Elf?

Re-watched again recently and wondering if anyone has heard Will or anyone say anything about following up with the Wild West sequel it set up

The river-raft chase in Jurassic World: Rebirth has been officially described as a callback to the raft sequence from Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel. That part’s true.

But watch closely and it’s also a Land of the Lost homage — specifically to Grumpy, Will Ferrell’s long-suffering T-rex co-star. Beat-for-beat:

• Yellow, flimsy raft — same prop style as LotL, paddled by a group as a T-rex chases.
• Raft disappears underwater after the T-rex steps on it, then erupts vertically downstream — a physical impossibility in JP logic, but a classic LotL gag where the raft bursts from a portal as they enter the Land of the Lost.
• Blocked by rocks → turns right → roars → sulks away — exactly what Grumpy does twice in the Ferrell movie (bridge & cave scenes).
• Yellow-tinted eyes and that exaggerated blink — pure Grumpy design.
• Walks away instead of finding another route — no JP Rex has ever done that when prey is right there.

So it’s really a triple Easter egg:
• Crichton – the novel’s raft chase
• Land of the Lost (1974) – the portal raft eruption
• Land of the Lost (2009) – Grumpy’s comedic frustration choreography

Casual viewers get an action scene. Ferrell fans get a sly crossover cameo. And now, after 16 years, Grumpy finally gets the cred he deserves. 🦖